WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh (all times local): 10:05 a.m. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has gaveled into session Thursday’s dramatic hearing with Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Ford, in prepared remarks submitted to the committee, alleges that Kavanaugh groped her and tried…
Bridgeton, MO (KTRS) The EPA is expected to officially sign off on a final plan Thursday morning to clean up radioactive waste at the Westlake Landfill in Bridgeton. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports the plan differs from one discussed earlier this year, in that it will cost $30 million dollars less, and finish up a…
Freeburg IL (KTRS) A vigil will be held at the accident site where a young teen was struck and killed. The Freeburg eighth grader who was killed while riding his bike, is identified as 14-year-old Mason Schmittling. The driver of the SUV that struck Schmittling is cooperating with police. Yesterday, family and friends constructed a…
By LISA MASCARO, ALAN FRAM and LAURIE KELLMAN , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With high drama in the making, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh emphatically fended off new accusations of sexual misconduct ahead of a charged public Senate hearing that could determine whether Republicans can salvage his nomination and enshrine a high court conservative majority.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would “certainly prefer not” to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and that he may delay a highly anticipated meeting with the Justice Department’s No. 2 official. Trump said Rosenstein denied making remarks first attributed to him in a New York Times report, including that…
LOS ANGELES, CA (AP) — A man who was deported six times and is now suspected in a string of killings and beatings that targeted sleeping homeless people in Southern California was charged Wednesday with murder, attempted murder robbery, authorities said. Authorities say suspect Ramon Alberto Escobar has a long criminal record in the U.S.…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — A victims’ support group is putting pressure on Missouri’s governor to intervene in a state investigation of potential clergy abuse, but Gov. Mike Parson’s office says he doesn’t have the authority to act at this point. Missouri leaders of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests in a Wednesday…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The plan to bring Major League Soccer to St. Louis is being revived. According to a story first reported by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, an official in Governor Mike Parson’s office said that officials with the state Department of Economic Development met with Major League Soccer representatives as recently as Tuesday,…
By MEG KINNARD and JEFFREY COLLINS , Associated Press BUCKSPORT, S.C. (AP) — The last community in the way of Hurricane Florence’s floodwaters as they slowly flow to the sea got some good news Wednesday — the predictions aren’t as dire as they once were. And it appears the Waccamaw River won’t top a lake…
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER , AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve signaled its confidence Wednesday in the U.S. economy by raising a key interest rate for a third time this year, forecasting another rate hike before year’s end and predicting that it will continue to tighten credit into 2020 to manage growth and…